“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” And the voters are going to be on the receiving end of that fury when the Dems elect Pelosi Minority Leader. Too bad the Democrats do not have any man or any woman who can lead them out of the blunder they are about to commit. But voters and experts, operatives and Democratic card carrying members of | Read More »
Charlie Cook, Frank Luntz, www.fivethirtyeight.com, Joseph Bafumi (writing in the Huffington Post) all predict the Dems will lose the U.S. House. My own algorithm (unpublished) also predicts a loss of the House for the Dems, and has for months. But the main-stream media and the Dems refuse to acknowledge the role that their Jonestown Kool-Aid Brigade played as they all drank deeply and for 16 | Read More »
Turns out that the interpretation that the Dems are bluffing on reconciliation is a charitable interpretation. It assumes they have a plan. The other alternative view, that the President really is serious about reconciliation, is so unserious that most in D.C. don’t take it seriously. (Read Eric Cantor’s House Whip Count Memo here about why the Dems do not have the votes in the House | Read More »
Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation has moved the entire health care world from refitting weapons and/or R & R to DEFCON Two with these two posts, here and here. Darling is not only one of the few real operational experts on Senate Rules, he is a highly effective operative for the good guys. If Darling says the Dems are going to try it, they | Read More »
The will to act, which looked so resolute among the Democratic leadership during the Dark Days of the The Great ObamaCare Wars of 2009 and 2010, has left the campsite, with rank and file sneaking away along the stream lines leading away from the Crusader’s tents. What looked liked indomitable will to the rank and file faithful, now looks like willful blindness, strategic stupidity and | Read More »
Among other very high prices to be paid for the Dems health reform jihad, it will cost them control of the U.S. House. Here is the Generic Ballot from Gallup from 1994, the year the Republicans took 50+ seats and control of the House, right after the failure of HillaryCare. (H/T the Marston Chronicles) But it is worse now, than it was then (see 2010 | Read More »
How sustainable a political position does this sound like: You can’t see the Senate ObamaCare legislative language and we will not tell you how much it costs. Here is how the San Francisco Examiner put it in their editorial: When then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised not to sign major legislation until it had been posted on the Internet for public reading at least five | Read More »
It is hard to know where to begin, other than to say the President told a Whopper on national television about health care — again. The most disturbing thing about his health care Whoppers is that he does it with such ease and grace. He practices telling Whoopers. He enjoys telling Whoppers. He makes Whoppers up. Right in his own house. Makes them right on | Read More »
The words tax/taxes and fine/fines appear in the Senator Baucus bill 243 times. There are Not Enough Votes for the Baucus Bill to be Voted Out of the Finance Committee Without Senators Wyden, Rockefeller and Snowe, Chairman Baucus does not have the votes to pass the bill out of the Senate Finance Committee. This means there will be horse trading a-go-go and the results will | Read More »
The politics of passing health care reform are exactly opposite in the Democratic controlled U.S. House and U.S. Senate. 1) In the House, Speaker Pelosi, staying true to her San Francisco Democratic roots will not pass health reform without a public option — and she has a recent letter signed by 83 of her Dem House colleagues from the Progressive Caucus, telling the President that | Read More »
If you are wondering if Charlie Cook has pulled the fire alarm and is frantically jumping up and down with a bull horn trying to get the Democrats out of the building before many get hurt — wonder no more. Charlie Cook in the National Journal has gone far past pulling the fire alarm — he is in full NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SIGNAL mode. (Red | Read More »
Reconciliation strategy for health care reform faces opposition from key Democratic Senators. The great New York Times health care legislative strategy takes a lethal blow — again. As Bloomberg reports: Resorting to a budget procedure called reconciliation would infuriate Republicans and force Democrats to settle for more limited changes, said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. “Both procedurally and | Read More »
The Washington Post is reporting that Senator Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has been convinced by his August recess experience (like this one) to stand-down on broad spectrum health care reform. The Post also quotes Senator Snowe, one of the three Republicans that make up the Gang of Six negotiating health care reform with the Chairman Baucus, the Chairman of the | Read More »
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